title: Use-dependent action of antiarrhythmic drugs in frog skeletal muscle and canine cardiac Purkinje fiber.
abstract: 1. Conventional microelectrode techniques were used to study the effect of quinidine (10 microM), lidocaine (20 microM), and verapamil (3-10 microM) on action potential upstroke (V+ max) in frog skeletal muscle and dog Purkinje fiber. 2. The frequency-dependent nature of V+ max depression induced by these drugs was similar in both preparations, however, quinidine was more potent in skeletal muscle while lidocaine was in Purkinje fibers. 3. In skeletal muscle tetrodotoxin (3 and 15 nM) and low concentrations of antiarrhythmic drugs proportionally reduced the maximum velocity of depolarization and repolarization (V+ max and V- max, respectively), whereas V- max was more depressed than V+ max by high concentrations (50-200 microM) of antiarrhythmics. Decreases in the overshoot potential were proportional to the V+ max block in the case of each drug. 4. These results indicate that therapeutically relevant concentrations of quinidine and lidocaine inhibit skeletal muscle Na+ channels in a use-dependent manner similar to heart, while at higher concentrations the K+ channels may also be blocked. Therapeutic implications of the results are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Nánási
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varró
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lathrop
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dankó
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004285:Dogs; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000494:pharmacology; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009132:Muscles / Q000187:drug effects*; D011690:Purkinje Fibers / Q000187:drug effects*; D011802:Quinidine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011893:Rana esculenta; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D014700:Verapamil / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents; D013779:Tetrodotoxin; D008012:Lidocaine; D014700:Verapamil; D011802:Quinidine